The East-West Center (EWC) is at the forefront of educating people of the Asia Pacific region to meet the evolving demands of global change. Since its founding in 1960, the Center has promoted the development of a stable, prosperous, and peaceful Asia Pacific community through programs of cooperative study, training, and research.

The East-West Center’s AsiaPacificEd Program for Schools supports the Center’s mission by providing global learning and exchange opportunities for educators and students in the United States and in the Asia Pacific region.

The Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership is a membership organization consisting of some twenty-five universities, ministries of education and quality assurance entities joined together to identify, explore and conduct research on key issues of higher education change within the Asia Pacific Region.

A joint program of the East-West Center and the University of Hawai’i, ASDP offers a variety of content-focused faculty and institutional development programs and activities centered around summer residential institutes, field seminars in Asia, workshops on the U.S. mainland, and an annual academic conference.

The East-West Center is a leader in educating people of the Asia Pacific region, including the United States, to meet the evolving demands and interdependency of global change. The Center offers a range of educational opportunities, bringing together more than 300 students each year from across the region.

The East-West Center Research Program engages the research and policy communities in the US and the Asia Pacific on issues of common concern. The goal is to provide more complete knowledge and deeper understanding of the environments, societies, economies, and governments of the Asia Pacific region.

The East-West Center is engaged in collaborative research projects in three broad areas: environment, population, and health; innovation, economic integration, and growth; and governance, security, and justice.

East-West Seminars offers short-term dialogue, field study, travel and exchange opportunities for working professionals in politics, government, civil society, business and the media who are in positions to affect policy, shape public opinion and influence change in their countries and communities. Programs provide opportunities for leading professionals from the United States and Asia Pacific to exchange views, build networks, develop leadership skills, and deepen knowledge of regional issues.

Journalism fellowships and exchanges for working American and Asia Pacific journalists promote understanding of the complexities of the Asia Pacific region through study tours. Intensive dialogue with colleagues, government officials, business executives and community leaders provides participants with a means to broaden their network of contacts.

The Asia Pacific Center for Journalists at the East-West Center in Honolulu leads the region in the vast array of programs and resources it offers journalists on Asia Pacific issues, including 10 fellowship travel programs for American, Asian and Pacific island journalists; a news service providing diverse commentary and analysis on breaking and ongoing Asia Pacific stories; comprehensive, updated online news coverage of the Pacific islands; and quick access to the East-West Center's specialists and 50,000 alumni throughout the region.

Pacific Islands Report is a nonprofit news publication of the Pacific Islands Development Program at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. Offered as a free service to readers around the world, PIR provides an edited digest of news, commentary and analysis from across the Pacific region, Monday through Friday.

The East-West Center-Sasakawa USA Congressional Staff Program on Asia is a bipartisan educational certificate program, which aims to equip Congressional staffers with greater knowledge of US-Asia policy in order to better understand America’s role in and engagement with this dynamic region and the policy implications that will directly engage Congress. Applications are being accepted now through August 1, 2016

The East-West Center Association (EWCA) is an international network of professionals who have a past affiliation with the East-West Center. There are no membership fees to participate in the EWCA. The Association is led by an international Executive Board representing the various professions, regions, and decades of its members. Collectively, they are contributing to global understanding, building an Asia Pacific community, and making a world of difference.

The East-West Center Association (EWCA) is an international network of professionals who have a past affiliation with the East-West Center. There are no membership fees to participate in the EWCA. The Association is led by an international Executive Board representing the various professions, regions, and decades of its members. Collectively, they are contributing to global understanding, building an Asia Pacific community, and making a world of difference.

With more than 62,000 alumni and associates around the world, the East-West Center has one of the largest networks of professionals working to advance international cooperation and understanding between the East and West. As part of that network, you can receive advice and support from associates throughout the region. As an alumni/associate you may join any one of the nearly 50 EWC alumni chapters in Asia, the Pacific and the U.S. While traveling, you can also contact local chapters for assistance in making contacts with colleagues and friends.

The East-West Center seeks to build a strong, peaceful and vibrant Asia-Pacific community as an anchor of a global community which features China and the US as strong partners. Special Projects focuses on China-US philanthropy exchange and other leadership and education projects primarily associated with China. Major projects include the East-West Philanthropists Summit and the China-US Strategic Philanthropy Partnership (CUSP).

February 8 - May 2 Exhibition: Custom and Creativity: The Arts of the Upland Philippines

March 18 Performance Ramon Obusan's Ballet Folklorico de Filipinas

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Asia Pacific Journalism Fellowships EWC, Taipei and Singapore March 7 - 19, 2006 The program takes six senior American broadcast and print journalists to Taipei and Singapore on a nine-day study tour after attending a two-day seminar at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

In Honolulu the journalists will meet with specialists from the East-West Center and other organizations in Hawaii to discuss U.S.-Asia Pacific issues. Fellows will meet with government, business, civic and cultural leaders in Singapore and Taipei.

“Digital Democracy and Freedom of Information” featuring Mark Cooper director of research, Consumer Federation of America and a fellow at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society and the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information

Mark Cooper is the author of several books, including “Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age” published in 2003, and has written numerous articles for journals and law reviews on issues facing our digital society. He holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and is a former Yale University and Fulbright fellow. He has provided expert testimony to courts, legislatures and regulatory agencies over 250 times in four-dozen jurisdictions in the United States and Canada.

Cosponsored by the East-West Center, Honolulu Community Media Council, University of Hawai‘i School of Communications’ Miller Learning Center, Hawai‘i Newspaper Guild, Honolulu Weekly, Hawai‘i Media Action Group, ‘Olelo: Community TV, League of Women Voters of Honolulu, Loomis-ISC, and many concerned citizens.

Still Too Large: Local Reaction to the U.S. Military Presence in Japan, Korea, & the Philippines Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 5th floor conf. room, Washington, D.C. March 15, 2006 The research team of the East West Center Shifting Terrain project will discuss their cross-national study of the domestic politics of the U.S. military presence in Asia. The speakers are Sheila A. Smith, Shifting Terrain project director, East-West Center; Patricio Abinales, University of Kyoto; Masaaki Gabe, University of the Ryukyus; and Katharine H.S. Moon, Wellesley College. Presented by the Asia Program and East-West Center Washington.

Luncheon Address: "U.S.-India Relations" Thursday, March 16, 2006 Imin Center-Jefferson Hall Ronen Sen, India's ambassador to the United States will speak on "U.S.-India Relations" at a luncheon address on Thursday, March 16 at the East West Center. Cosponsors include EWC, Friends of the East-West Center, Pacific and Asian Affairs Council and the University of Hawai‘i Center for South Asian Studies. Cost is $20. For reservations and information call 944-7111 or email ewcinfo@eastwestcenter.org

12th Annual ASDP National Conference Hosted at Belmont University, Nashville, TN March 16 - 18, 2006 This is the twelfth annual conference for ASDP alumni and interested college faculty. Participants will attend presentations and panel sessions to share their strategies for infusing Asian studies into the undergraduate college curriculum.

Culture, Climate, and Change in East Asia Geneva, New York March 24 - 26, 2006 This is a three-day workshop for scholars, educators, and students to address issues related to the impact of environment on human activity and values in East and Southeast Asia, with a special focus on China, Japan, and Vietnam. Hosted by Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York.

Korea-U.S. Journalists Exchange Honolulu, Seoul, Busan, Kwanju, Washington D.C., two other U.S. cities March 29 - April 13, 2006 The program sends six Korean journalists to the United States and six U.S. journalists to South Korea to meet with government and business leaders, academics, non-governmental organizations and other members of the community. With the theme of “Bridging the Gaps in Understanding,” the program seeks to introduce journalists to the political, security, economic, cultural and social issues of each country.

The program is cosponsored by the Korea Press Foundation and is supported by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.

ASDP Outreach Program: The Interplay of Culture & Religion Moline, Illinois March 30 - April 1, 2006 This is a three-day workshop for scholars and educators to provide a basic knowledge of the Islamic faith and to address issues related to the politics, culture, and practices of Islam in Asia. The workshop will include lectures, panel discussions, exhibits, and a special film series. Hosted by Black Hawk College in Moline, Illinois.

Infusing Asian Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum Workshop - Indigenous Cultures & Outside Influences: Japan & SE Asia EWC April 24 — May 5, 2006 This is a two-week training program for college and university faculty from the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region to help infuse Asian content in their respective undergraduate programs, followed by a two-week field study at selected universities in Southeast Asia.

The goals of this program are to promote the globalization of LAC universities’ curriculum and help create a network between Asian and LAC universities. Sponsored by EWC’s Asian Studies Development Program and Inter-American Development Bank.

Spring 2006 Jefferson Fellowships “Powering the Future: Energy Sources and Alternatives” April 30, 2006 - May 28, 2006 During the Honolulu, Hawaii portion of the program, Jefferson Fellows will explore the challenges that face the Asia Pacific region in developing energy sources and meeting the broader social, economic and political considerations that frame energy-related decisions. Fellows will also look at overall U.S.-Asia Pacific relations. The following 21-day study tour program will include site visits and meetings with government officials, business leaders, environmental experts and industry analysts in Houston, Texas, one of the world’s major oil and gas cities; in Sacramento, California, capital of a state ranked 2nd in U.S. energy consumption and known for its policies promoting energy diversity and combating global warming; in Seoul, South Korea, capital of an energy resource-poor country that imports about 97 percent of its energy requirements and where nuclear energy provides 40 percent of the country’s electricity; and in Beijing, China, where policymakers strive to fuel a booming economy and at the same time grapple with environmental degradation.

The Jefferson Fellowships, founded by the East-West Center in 1967, promote better public understanding of the United States, Asia and the Pacific Islands through a program of dialogue, study and travel for print and broadcast journalists.

The Jefferson Fellowships are supported by a grant from The Freeman Foundation.

Exhibition: Custom and Creativity: The Arts of the Upland Philippines East-West Center Gallery February 8 - May 2, 2006

In Celebration of the Centennial of Philippine Imigration to Hawai`i

Contemporary works by artists from this region will be paired with traditional arts and crafts that show the rich traditions of the Ifugao, Benget, Kalinga Banaue, and other Central Cordilleran cultures. Baguio, the capital of the region, is renowned for numerous accomplished creative artists.

The exhibition also will include superb video footage of traditional ceremonies, taken over the past two decades by the award winning visual ethnographer Art Tibaldo. The indigenous peoples have been discriminated against, in spite of their rich cultural and agricultural accomplishments.

Sunday, March 5, 2:00 p.m. "Domestic Architecture of the Kalinga, Ifugao, and Bontok: Its Adaptation of Contemporary Forms," presented by the Filipino Association of University Women, and featuring architects Rose Cruz Churma and Joel Francisco.

Sunday, March 19, 2:00-3:00 p.m. "Cordilleran Dance," a lecture-demonstration with choreographer and dance ethnologist Ramon Obusan, Freeman Artist-in-Residence. Sunday, April 23, 2:00-3:00 p.m. "The Making of the Igorot: Contours of Cordillera Consciousness," a lecture on identity politics by Gerard 'Jerry' Finin, Deputy Director, EWC's Pacific Islands Development Program, followed by a book signing.

EWC Arts Programs are supported in part by the Hawai`i Pacific Rim Society, Friends of Hawai`i Charities, the Jackie Chan Foundation USA, and generous contributors to the EWC Foundation, including members of the EWC Arts ‘Ohana.

Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-5 p.m; Sunday noon-4 p.m. Closed Saturdays and holidays. Admission is free. Visitor parking on the adjacent UH campus is $3 and is usually easily available on the upper campus after 4 p.m. weekdays; Sunday parking is normally free and ample.

Performance: Ramon Obusan's Ballet Folklorico de Filipinas Blaisdell Concert Hall March 18, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. This stellar 26-member folk dance and music company is the resident group of the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila. They perform frequently throughout the Philippines and internationally, led by researcher and choreographer Ramon Obusan, whose tireless efforts in dance ethnography have brought him the highest national honors and accolades. Their Hawai`i repertoire will include works from throughout the vast archipelago, from Mindanao to the Cordillera mountains of northern Luzon. Presented by East-West Center and the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Outreach College.

Ramon Obusan is Freeman Artist-in-Residence. The Freeman Foundation Artist Residency is a project of the University of Hawai`i Asian Studies Program funded by a grant for the development of undergraduate study of Asia by the Freeman Foundation.

These EWC Arts Programs are supported by the Philippine Centennial Celebration Commission in partnership with First Hawaiian Bank, Hawai`i Pacific Rim Society, Friends of Hawai`i Charities, Jackie Chan Foundation USA, Western States Arts Federation, and generous contributors to the EWC Foundation, including members of the EWC Arts `Ohana.

The program takes six senior American broadcast and print journalists to Taipei and Singapore on a nine-day study tour after attending a two-day seminar at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

In Honolulu the journalists will meet with specialists from the East-West Center and other organizations in Hawaii to discuss U.S.-Asia Pacific issues. Fellows will meet with government, business, civic and cultural leaders in Singapore and Taipei.

(Limited parking available on lawn area between Lincoln Hall and Imin Center.)

While Congress and the U.S. Administration are deciding the future of media, Mark Cooper will reflect on future implications for broadband media.

- Internet Freedom

- Media Ownership

- Free expression without censorship

- Access without discrimination

- Protecting privacy rights

Mark Cooper is the author of several books, including “Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age” published in 2003, and has written numerous articles for journals and law reviews on issues facing our digital society. He holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and is a former Yale University and Fulbright fellow. He has provided expert testimony to courts, legislatures and regulatory agencies over 250 times in four-dozen jurisdictions in the United States and Canada.

Cosponsored by the East-West Center, Honolulu Community Media Council, University of Hawai‘i School of Communications’ Miller Learning Center, Hawai‘i Newspaper Guild, Honolulu Weekly, Hawai‘i Media Action Group, ‘Olelo: Community TV, League of Women Voters of Honolulu, Loomis-ISC, and many concerned citizens.

Still Too Large: Local Reaction to the U.S. Military Presence in Japan, Korea, & the Philippines

The research team of the East West Center Shifting Terrain project will discuss their cross-national study of the domestic politics of the U.S. military presence in Asia. The speakers are Sheila A. Smith, Shifting Terrain project director, East-West Center; Patricio Abinales, University of Kyoto; Masaaki Gabe, University of the Ryukyus; and Katharine H.S. Moon, Wellesley College. Presented by the Asia Program and East-West Center Washington.

Ronen Sen, India\'s ambassador to the United States will speak on \"U.S.-India Relations\" at a luncheon address on Thursday, March 16 at the East West Center. Cosponsors include EWC, Friends of the East-West Center, Pacific and Asian Affairs Council and the University of Hawai‘i Center for South Asian Studies. Cost is $20. For reservations and information call 944-7111 or email ewcinfo@eastwestcenter.org

This is the twelfth annual conference for ASDP alumni and interested college faculty. Participants will attend presentations and panel sessions to share their strategies for infusing Asian studies into the undergraduate college curriculum.

This is a three-day workshop for scholars, educators, and students to address issues related to the impact of environment on human activity and values in East and Southeast Asia, with a special focus on China, Japan, and Vietnam. Hosted by Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York.

Honolulu, Seoul, Busan, Kwanju, Washington D.C., two other U.S. cities

March 29 - April 13, 2006

The program sends six Korean journalists to the United States and six U.S. journalists to South Korea to meet with government and business leaders, academics, non-governmental organizations and other members of the community. With the theme of “Bridging the Gaps in Understanding,” the program seeks to introduce journalists to the political, security, economic, cultural and social issues of each country.

The program is cosponsored by the Korea Press Foundation and is supported by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.

This is a three-day workshop for scholars and educators to provide a basic knowledge of the Islamic faith and to address issues related to the politics, culture, and practices of Islam in Asia. The workshop will include lectures, panel discussions, exhibits, and a special film series. Hosted by Black Hawk College in Moline, Illinois.

This is a two-week training program for college and university faculty from the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region to help infuse Asian content in their respective undergraduate programs, followed by a two-week field study at selected universities in Southeast Asia.

The goals of this program are to promote the globalization of LAC universities’ curriculum and help create a network between Asian and LAC universities. Sponsored by EWC’s Asian Studies Development Program and Inter-American Development Bank.

During the Honolulu, Hawaii portion of the program, Jefferson Fellows will explore the challenges that face the Asia Pacific region in developing energy sources and meeting the broader social, economic and political considerations that frame energy-related decisions. Fellows will also look at overall U.S.-Asia Pacific relations. The following 21-day study tour program will include site visits and meetings with government officials, business leaders, environmental experts and industry analysts in Houston, Texas, one of the world’s major oil and gas cities; in Sacramento, California, capital of a state ranked 2nd in U.S. energy consumption and known for its policies promoting energy diversity and combating global warming; in Seoul, South Korea, capital of an energy resource-poor country that imports about 97 percent of its energy requirements and where nuclear energy provides 40 percent of the country’s electricity; and in Beijing, China, where policymakers strive to fuel a booming economy and at the same time grapple with environmental degradation.

The Jefferson Fellowships, founded by the East-West Center in 1967, promote better public understanding of the United States, Asia and the Pacific Islands through a program of dialogue, study and travel for print and broadcast journalists.

The Jefferson Fellowships are supported by a grant from The Freeman Foundation.

Contemporary works by artists from this region will be paired with traditional arts and crafts that show the rich traditions of the Ifugao, Benget, Kalinga Banaue, and other Central Cordilleran cultures. Baguio, the capital of the region, is renowned for numerous accomplished creative artists.

The exhibition also will include superb video footage of traditional ceremonies, taken over the past two decades by the award winning visual ethnographer Art Tibaldo. The indigenous peoples have been discriminated against, in spite of their rich cultural and agricultural accomplishments.

\"Domestic Architecture of the Kalinga, Ifugao, and Bontok: Its Adaptation of Contemporary Forms,\" presented by the Filipino Association of University Women, and featuring architects Rose Cruz Churma and Joel Francisco.

\"The Making of the Igorot: Contours of Cordillera Consciousness,\" a lecture on identity politics by Gerard \'Jerry\' Finin, Deputy Director, EWC\'s Pacific Islands Development Program, followed by a book signing.

EWC Arts Programs are supported in part by the Hawai`i Pacific Rim Society, Friends of Hawai`i Charities, the Jackie Chan Foundation USA, and generous contributors to the EWC Foundation, including members of the EWC Arts ‘Ohana.

Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-5 p.m; Sunday noon-4 p.m. Closed Saturdays and holidays. Admission is free. Visitor parking on the adjacent UH campus is $3 and is usually easily available on the upper campus after 4 p.m. weekdays; Sunday parking is normally free and ample.

Performance: Ramon Obusan\'s Ballet Folklorico de Filipinas

Blaisdell Concert Hall

March 18, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.

This stellar 26-member folk dance and music company is the resident group of the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila. They perform frequently throughout the Philippines and internationally, led by researcher and choreographer Ramon Obusan, whose tireless efforts in dance ethnography have brought him the highest national honors and accolades. Their Hawai`i repertoire will include works from throughout the vast archipelago, from Mindanao to the Cordillera mountains of northern Luzon. Presented by East-West Center and the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Outreach College.

Ramon Obusan is Freeman Artist-in-Residence. The Freeman Foundation Artist Residency is a project of the University of Hawai`i Asian Studies Program funded by a grant for the development of undergraduate study of Asia by the Freeman Foundation.

These EWC Arts Programs are supported by the Philippine Centennial Celebration Commission in partnership with First Hawaiian Bank, Hawai`i Pacific Rim Society, Friends of Hawai`i Charities, Jackie Chan Foundation USA, Western States Arts Federation, and generous contributors to the EWC Foundation, including members of the EWC Arts `Ohana.